Thank you for the question.
As I started to say a little bit earlier, we are part of this provincial-federal-territorial hazard communications system. Where a manufacturer does not want to disclose a trade secret ingredient, they're required by law to come to the commission, where we do two important things, one of which will address your answer.
First, we adjudicate whether or not these are legitimate claims for trade secrecy. In other words, is there an economic justification that speaks to why this is confidential and why it can't be disclosed?
The other part of our mandate goes to the health and safety information. It's that part of the mandate that is what we call “in the public good”, where we are looking at the materials safety data sheets. These are sheets of information that are required to accompany a product in a workplace. They list all of the ingredients being used in that product along with the hazard measures, the toxicological properties of those particular ingredients, and of course, most importantly, first aid measures in terms of how to protect yourself if there is an accident.
Our job is to look at all of those materials safety data sheets that accompany products that come to the commission in claims for trade secrecy. When we do that, given that we are a quasi-judicial agency, every MSDS that comes to us is 100% compliant when it leaves, when it goes back to the claimant.